“Where there’s areas we can improve our selection and delivery for customers, we’ll do so,” he added.

Olsavsky shifted blame for the issues away from Amazon, saying “we’ve made no changes post acquisition that would have impacted anything related to in-stock, except perhaps the fact that the price decreases have brought up demand and there’s an amount of rebalancing related to that.”

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A Whole Foods store in Miami, Florida.

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He also said that the out-of-stock problems could be due to the weather, or as he put it, “selective weather-related restocking issues.”